Vocabulary Word
Word: paraphrase
Definition: restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
Definition: restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
Sentences Containing 'paraphrase'
And in art,``he that would save his work must often lose it,''if you will excuse the paraphrase of a profound saying which, like most profound sayings, is applicable to many things in life besides what it originally referred to.
Poor Peggotty lifted up her hands and eyes, and only answered, in a sort of paraphrase of the grace I usually repeated after dinner, 'Lord forgive you, Mrs. Copperfield, and for what you have said this minute, may you never be truly sorry!'
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::: valid - logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable; effective; Ex. valid reasoning/passport
::: overture - musical introduction to a long musical piece; first offer or proposal (to begin talks in the hope of reaching an agreement); Ex. overtures for peace
::: malcontent - person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs; discontented person; ADJ: discontented
::: bombastic - pompous; using inflated language
::: baffle - frustrate; perplex
::: sonic - of sound or its speed in air; CF. subsonic, supersonic
::: crave - desire; want intensely
